BY THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, WITH GREEN UNDERGLAZE MARK OF HAMMER, SICKLE AND COG, WITH IMPRESSED CYRILLIC INTIALS OF ANATOLY LUKIN

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A Soviet porcelain propaganda Inkwell
by the State Porcelain Factory, with green underglaze mark of hammer, sickle and cog, with impressed Cyrillic intials of Anatoly Lukin
Formed as two books, the lower volume painted on the spine in Russian Collection of Essays Vol X N. Lenin (V. Ul'ianov), the top inscribed in Cyrillic lower right Redizdat Morveda, with a scroll painted in Russian Better less but better, pierced with ink well holder and surmounted by a bust of Lenin, after Natalya Danko's original model of 1924, marked under base
5 in. (18.8 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

On the 26 January 1924, five days after Lenin's death, the Thirteenth Congress of the Communist Party passed a resolution defining the primary task of the Lenin Institute as being the publication of the Collected Works of Lenin. Lenin signed decrees using both his name (V. I. Ulyanov) and pseudonym. Before the Revolution communist leaders adopted pseudonyms in an attempt to protect themselves from persecution by Tsarist police. These inkpots became standard issue for the desks of high government officials and Soviet ambassadors.
(N. Lobanov-Rostovsky, Revolutionary Ceramics Soviet Procelain 1917-1927, New York, 1990, p. 94, no.92.)

For details on the sculptor see lot 270.

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